Drupal: Start Screen Full Of Crap

[zflauaus]

Ok, so I'm trying to find something more powerful than WordPress to test out on for a while and I've been trying Drupal. Each time I install it, I get codes full of crap that I can't make sense of. I have quadruple checked that the MySQL settings are correct. My current installation, or what it should be, is here. (http://www.macflauaus.com/drupal) If anybody knows what to do, please let me know. I am going absolutely crazy!

[spicyapple]

Looks like Drupal can't access your database, nor write to it. Did you enter your username/password into the Drupal configuration file? I've installed 2 Drupal websites but forgot the exact procedure to get it working.

Also check to make sure your permissions for folder read/write are correctly set.

[mnkeybsness]

Warning: Table 'drupal.sessions' doesn't exist query

Looks like it didn't install correctly. If I remember right, you will need to manually run the SQL query to create the tables in the database.

[zflauaus]

Warning: Table 'drupal.sessions' doesn't exist query

Looks like it didn't install correctly. If I remember right, you will need to manually run the SQL query to create the tables in the database.
And by chance, do you know how to do this?



EDIT 2: Okay, I got to the account set up page, but it is not working from there on. Any other hints?

[mnkeybsness]

The instructions exist in the download. No offense, but if you can't follow the installation instructions, figuring out how to even use drupal will be an even bigger challenge.

[Bu88a]

Looking at your site, I think I know what's going wrong.

If you hover over your "drupal" sitename at the top left portion of the page, you'll notice the link it's trying to redirect you to is yourdomain.com/cgi-system/ this should be a link to your base (or root) drupal directory.

Be sure you've got the database (username and password) and base_url set correctly in the sites/default/settings.php file. I would bet that you're base_url is incorrect (note: no trailing slash!), which is causing your current issue.

[zflauaus]

Looking at your site, I think I know what's going wrong.

If you hover over your "drupal" sitename at the top left portion of the page, you'll notice the link it's trying to redirect you to is yourdomain.com/cgi-system/ this should be a link to your base (or root) drupal directory.

Be sure you've got the database (username and password) and base_url set correctly in the sites/default/settings.php file. I would bet that you're base_url is incorrect (note: no trailing slash!), which is causing your current issue.
Thank you soooo much Bu88a. I actually needed to delete the hash sign. Wow, that's stupid of me. Thanks again!